As a part of its 1999 pre-budget consultation, the Government of Saskatchewan asked the Canada
West Foundation and the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy to convene and host a broadly
representative conference of ...

What have been the causes of the accumulation of government debt in Canada? How
large have been the respective contributions of high interest rates, low growth rates, the
business cycle, and changes to tax rates and ...

Our country is so vast and so diverse that our knowledge of it is always limited. This
could be a disadvantage. I believe on the contrary that we draw three advantages from this.
First, a permanent call to modesty: all ...

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A Fyke in the Road: The ‘New’ Politics of Health Reform......... ...

Over the last two decades, the public sector has been viewed as cumbersome, unresponsive and costly. In view of its perceived inability to meet the complex and rapidly changing demands of modern societies, there have been ...

Suppose that changing technology, patterns of trade, and prices have created a situation
that, left unchecked by decisive government action, would result in a migration from
rural to urban areas. Should the government ...

Canada has one of the safest food safety systems in the world. It has created a system
that includes regulation, inspection, enforcement, research and education. The various
orders of governments, the food industries, ...

It is becoming increasingly evident that the fiscal structures of the federal government and
of provincial-territorial governments combined are not moving in parallel directions. While
provincial and territorial governments ...

The recent release by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(“OECD”) of the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (“PISA”) has
served once more to focus the attention of ...

The three Prairie provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta1 have been in a state of
restructuring and change since settlement by
European immigrants in the latter half of the 19th and
the early part of the 20th ...

This paper summarizes and analyzes a 1999 report by the Swiss federal government and the
cantons (Conseil fédéral 1999), which presents the planned reform of the equalization
system in Switzerland. I argue that this ...

In order to understand wife abuse in a rural context, it is important to recognize
the nature of that context. New Brunswick is a largely rural province with 51% of its
738,133 inhabitants living in areas defined as ...